Cloud Automation Engineer_Vice President_Lead Cloud & Infra Engineering

Company Profile:
At Morgan Stanley (MS), we advise, originate, trade, manage and distribute capital for governments, institutions, and individuals, and always do so with a standard of excellence. We are a leading global financial services firm that conducts its business through three principal business segments. Institutional Securities, Wealth Management (WM), and Investment Management. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence, and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Department Profile:
Public Cloud Foundation Engineering (CFE) is a dynamic and fast-paced area within the Enterprise Technology & Services (ETS) division. We are responsible for creating innovative technology solutions for the entire firm, allowing business and client-facing divisions to migrate and operate their applications on public cloud service providers as efficiently as possible. If you are interested in solving complex problems and building sophisticated solutions in a dynamic team environment, CFE is the place for you.

Position Description:

The Vice President,Cloud Automation Engineer, is a hands-on leadership role focused on developing and designing automation platforms for multi-cloud infrastructure orchestration and provisioning.

Key responsibilities include constructing automated cloud foundations, establishing self-service provisioning platforms, and implementing policy-driven orchestration using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

The role demands the ability to translate cloud architecture intent into robust, production-grade solutions that comply with banking regulatory, security, and resiliency standards.

The successful candidate collaborates with global teams to understand requirements, develop high-quality code, and deliver impactful projects.

Attention to detail and a strong sense of ownership are essential for delivering high-quality applications.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead and participate in the design and development of platforms providing self-service capabilities for public cloud environments (Azure, GCP, AWS).
• Enhance and integrate cloud service provider (CSP) automation frameworks with in-house tools.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance throughout design and implementation phases.
• Lead and participate in code reviews, mentoring junior engineers in development and architectural best practices.
• Define and document Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) to ensure team alignment with architectural choices.
• Collaborate with stake holders and infrastructure teams to improve the developer experience at Morgan Stanley.
• Work alongside global application developers and infrastructure engineers.
• Produce proof of concepts in emerging areas.
• Provide technical support for debugging application failures within production systems.
• Participate in all stages of the software development life cycle (SDLC), including analysis, design, coding, testing, and deployment.

Required Skills:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in developing and designing applications using Python, Golang, and Terraform.
• Expertise in at least one public cloud platform: Azure, GCP, or AWS.
• Proficiency with database technologies, preferably NoSQL, including modelling, testing, and performance tuning.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented design and development principles.
• Expertise in Linux environments.
• Experience with Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) frameworks, such as Cucumber/Gherkin, GoDog, or behave.
• Competency in version control systems (git) and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GHEC Actions).
• Strong understanding of SDLC,Agile and DevOps methodologies and tools
• Ability to write reusable, optimised, and maintainable code that is well documented and adheres to industry best practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present information clearly and concisely to a range of stakeholders.
• Strong hands-on automation and scripting mindset

Desired Skills:

• Docker and Kubernetes
• Cloud certifications
• Experience in building enterprise cloud landing zones

• Knowledge of identity and security controls and/or tooling for the public cloud
   

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

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